Angry in the Great White North

From David James:

Thunderline did not design the stopiggy website. It was designed by a coder out of Toronto who we worked with in the past and allowed some space on our server. He designed and posted the website. Once we found out it was a smear campaign, we had him pull it down and relocate it.

Also, about Justin Davis. Many many years ago, he had approached us about doing some legitimate work after Norlink. We met a couple times and decided not to go anywhere with it. Unfortunately in that breif time, he had a call from a newspaper and asked him about hacking. He droppped the name Thunderline as his employer.

My lawyers wrote a letter to G&M to retract the statement that Justin worked for ThunderLine and that we were in the business of Internet Security. Their response was that any publicity is good publicity.

Funny to see how one persons comments can echo so many years later.

We make websites for small businesses and have been doing it for over ten years. The company does not align itself politically, although personally I am currently favouring Liberals and am crossing my fingers that Iggy will do some good things.

As for the stopiggy website and Justin Davis,... one does not have to roll in the tall grass to get tics. Sometimes if you happen to be standing by the roadside looking at the distance across the field, they jump at you without you knowing and all you can do is pick them off and leave.

Thanks.

David
Thunderline

P.S. I have not used Frontpage or any WYSWYG for about 8 years. Hand code is the only way.

I also hand-code my pages, but then all serious bloggers do.

Justin Davis is a convicted hacker who claimed to have worked for Thunderline, a claim that was printed up in the Globe and Mail and then repeated on this blog.

Unlike the Globe and Mail, if David thinks being associated with Justin Davis is bad publicity and does not want it, I am happy to report that the connection does not exist and make a correction to the original posting.

And it didn't even need a letter from a lawyer.

So there -- the record is set straight. As for StopIggy, it's still up.